Some translations have this verse reading "They that wait (up)on the Lord" (eg. NKJV) while others have "They that wait for the Lord" (eg. ESV) and still others "Those that hope in the Lord". (eg NIV)
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Obviously we can not know for certain what they were thinking, but with some knowledge about ancient interpretations of this text and the translation philosophy employed by the LXX, I suspect someone ...

In Isaiah 7, King Ahaz, the Judean king, is surrounded by the armies of Aram and Israel and things look bleak. At Isaiah 7:13-17, the prophet tells Ahaz that God will give him a sign that the seige ...

What is meant by keeping people blind and deaf so as not to get healed?
I understand this to be one of those scriptures that is meant to challenge our understanding, such as "drink my blood and eat ...

I already asked a variant of this question over at Christianity.SE: http://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/4104/to-what-extent-did-isaiah-understand-his-own-prophecies/4117#4117
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יברך and ברך are translated as bless/ing all over the Bible but
translated as kneel/ing in
Gen 24:11, 2 Chr 6:13
ברך is translated as knee in
Isa 45:23
What does the word ברך, translated as "bless" ...

Does this passage in Isaiah indicate that the heavens (e.g. universe) is expanding, in agreement with scientific observations? Am I interpreting this correctly? It would be pretty amazing if this is ...

In Ephesians we find that light (religious truth) is being deacribed as very powerul as it is able to make dead things living just by shinning on them.
But when anything is exposed by the light, it ...